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If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.
If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.
Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.
You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.
The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.
The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.
I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.
When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar plexus area.
Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".
I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.
If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.
Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.
The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.
When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.
People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.
If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing.
As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.
Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.
You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely on them? It's chancy.
There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.
There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.
Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.
Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.
Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.
Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness.
You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.
Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.
If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.
People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.
There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.
Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.
Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.
Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.
Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.
I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.
What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.
The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being.
Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.
Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex? I suppose it matters with whom.
You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.
One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.
Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.